দানবের মতো
danober moto; buldojar korchhe ekta
Provenance: Reviewed field-research record
Word class
Simile; borrowed machine metaphor
Lexical status
Dictionary nouns used in a local comparison; no separate mental-health headword verified.
Recorded forms
দানবের মতো; বুলডোজার করছে একটা
Research meaning — English
1. A caregiver compares forceful bodily impact with a giant and a bulldozer, describing apologies and fines after harm to others.
Research meaning — Bengali
1. শরীরের আকার ও আঘাতের জোর বোঝাতে দানব ও বুলডোজারের তুলনা।
What this research adds
Metaphorical extension from size and force, not an assertion of spirit possession. One extended passage documents embodied fear and family consequences in the speaker’s account.
Relación con la salud mental
The caregiver uses comparisons to convey perceived force and the consequences of the person’s conduct. Her account of apologizing and fines locates the imagery in a family’s social burden.
Safe messaging for media
- Use the expression in its stated context; do not present it as a diagnosis or universal translation.
- Avoid describing a person by a stigmatizing term unless the person self-identifies that way and the wording is necessary.
- For suicide-related coverage, avoid method detail, sensational headlines, and single-cause explanations; include help-seeking information.
- Link to this entry’s evidence limits and distinguish contributor wording from analyst interpretation.
Established meaning — English
1. Danob denotes a mythological demon/giant; bulldozer an earth-moving machine. [PLEX13; PLEX33]
Established meaning — Bengali
1. দানব: পৌরাণিক দৈত্যজাত সত্তা; বুলডোজার: মাটি সরানোর ভারী যন্ত্র। [PLEX13; PLEX33]
Contexto de uso
Only one substantial evidence unit supports the phrase, so a second independent example is not manufactured. No attested synonym or antonym is supplied.
Learning from the accounts
Reported effects
E0047 reports injury risk, apologizing and financial consequences; these belong to this family account.
Attributed origins
The simile attributes force to bodily size and weight, not to a supernatural origin.
Variation and visualization
A single account supplies no evidence of community-wide visualization or frequency.
Qué es incierto
The comparison supplies no evidence that a supernatural being was perceived or that a particular disorder caused the conduct. Keep “like” explicit in the demon comparison so that figurative intensity does not become literal possession.
Commonness and evidence limits
One cited caregiver turn supports this distinctive expression. It must not become a general claim about aggression or common language.
Relationships and comparison
These are scoped relationships from the research record, not claims of universal equivalence.
Synonyms and near-synonyms
No synonym established for this entry.
Antonyms and contrasts
No antonym established for this entry.
Related terms
No separate related-term record supplied.
Across languages
English: bulldozer — heavy earth-moving vehicle Borrowed object used as a local analogy The established machine sense explains force imagery. The dictionary does not establish a psychiatric category; the local comparison must not generalize to other people. [PLEX33]
মানে দানবের মতো বের হবে আর কারো শরীরে যদি হাতটা পরে তাহলে মনে হবে যে বুলডোজার করছে একটা। কারণ শরীর-স্বাস্থ্য তো হেবি আর ওর একটা হাতের ওজন কেউ সহ্য করতে পারে না। অনেক মুরুব্বিরা অনেকের কাছে যেয়ে মাফ চাই স্যার। অনেকের কাছে চেয়ে জোর হাত করে মাফ চাই কারণ একটা আঘাত করে বসতে। তাদের কাছে মাফ চাওয়া ছাড়া, জরিমানা দেওয়া ছাড়া আমাদের কোন উপায় নাই।
All evidence IDs: E0047
Literature notes and references
LN007: The general stigma framework supplies context for dehumanizing representations, not validation of dangerousness. [PLIT03]
Perspectivas de distintos contextos
Las perspectivas se muestran una junto a otra. Parecerse no significa ser equivalente. Ninguna perspectiva habla en nombre de toda una cultura.